<p>I have a question, the article advises you not to tell all the schools that waitlisted you, and that you are interested in attending that they are your first choice, it says to pick one? Whats the worse that can happen if you did do that? I mean your chances are low as it is, trying to get off the waitlist, why not tell all the schools that waitlisted you that they are your first choice, and that if accepted you will attend. If you really want to go to any one of the schools that waitlisted you…</p>
<p>They may think, “Eh, someone else will take him… there’s a slight chance he’ll take the wait list spot that he ACCEPTED; let’s improve our yield!”</p>
<p>^^^no what I meant to say was, Lets say (student z) got waitlisted at 6 schools, the article says to “pick one school” and tell them that they are your first choice, but if student z would love to go any of the 6 schools thatt waitlisted her, shouldn’t student z tell all the schools “that I will attend if you accept me off the waitlist” I mean whats the worst that can happen…</p>
<p>^You can get discovered, and dishonesty is not that admirable, you know.</p>
<p>^^^ what? i am pretty stupid so I don’t get this lol, could you please clarify it…</p>
<p>what if the college you fooled contacted the college you will go to and you get rescinded?</p>
<p>Imagine what would happen if the college you’re waitlisted at discovers that you told several other colleges that they were your first-choices too. Do you think they will take a dishonest kid?</p>
<p>Lafalum84, I was thinking about doing that but we only have 600 characters to add in any new relevant info. I did so by including my third quarter grades and an update on projects I’ve completed this semester at my school. I had 4 characters left :(</p>
<p>We do have the option of sending in as many of these “600 character” updates as we like but I don’t want to annoy them (haha, sorry, I’m really paranoid) with another submitted page.</p>
<p>Actually, I WAS thinking of writing a poem…</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks, I see what you are saying, it is a bad idea to do that to all colleges…</p>
<p>I have read some of the advice here and I thank you for it. I tried using one of the strategies and called the person who interviewed me, he suggested it of course. Firstly, he did great with telling me about asking my school counselor to write to the college and then he proceeded to admonish me that I shouldn’t be applying to schools like theirs just cuz I want the money. Then upon further “interrogation”, I had to disclosed the names of the schools that did admit me, though the comments he made about one of the schools ( the one that I will be attending) was kinda inappropriate. ex. “oh that’s not a good school”. Lastly, his advice was for me to attend a school that’s not as comparable as the one that he scoffed at. Just because this other school is in the east coast. So, after much contemplating, I decided to just sit and wait. And if I get in, I get in. And if I don’t, then I don’t. These past few months has been like a roller coaster. I’m just glad that there are some great, nice, and friendly coaches, adcoms, alumnis and financial aid people to make up for some of the not so nice people. At least it made the process a little more bearable. Though I have to say that I kinda cried a little bit after I hang up the phone.</p>
<p>I can understand the feeling of crying when you hung up the phone. Please, please, please consider the schools you ARE in as every bit as fantastic as this other school! I went to a state U, ended up at Northwestern for grad school, and I can honestly say I was every bit as prepared as anybody else in any class, also, a lot more sane than some of the kids who’d been in a duel to the death academic environment during what ought to be four of the best years of your life!</p>
<p>I’m really not very into this waitlist business. I think it is just dastardly at the end of an incredibly long and exhausting process, already.</p>
<p>The school you go to will be the place you want to be within weeks or months. I promise.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice and TheDailyBeast link. I’ll definitely check back here next year for if I get waitlisted at schools.</p>
<p>Link doesn’t work for me, although I swear it worked this morning.</p>
<p>I thought it was funny that he said something like “trust me, I’ve written a BOOK about college admissions!” because lots of people have written books; they’re not authority by any means…</p>
<p>aw, sleepycat, it’s okay. Going to a less prestigious undergraduate school=better chance at a higher GPA/entrance into a top graduate school.</p>
<p>I agree that the waitlist is torture–I’ve been waitlisted 4 times.
I don’t even think I have enough energy left to call/write/mail/etc. Say I try my hardest trying to get into those and I still get rejected, what then? It’s all looking sort of bleak right now.</p>
<p>I was rejected/waitlisted at those schools for a reason. I’m finally willing to let go of it all now.</p>
<p>^^^ not necessarily true for top medical schools. 70 percent of the kids who go to the top medical schools come from kids that went to one of the top 20 undergrad programs in the country…</p>
<p>70 percent is not 100 :P</p>
<p>Last year my daughter applied ED1 to Vassar, was deferred and wiatlisted. She wrote saying Vassar had always been her first choice and still was. An active alum who had recruited her wrote confirming her interest. She put all hope of getting into Vassar aside and accepted a place at a great program at a large university in out city. In the second week of May she received an e-mail and a phone message from her admissions rep saying she wanted to propose her to the committee and asked if she was still interested. Her first reaction was that she wasn’t sure she wanted to go somewhere that rejected her twice. However, on further reflection, she decided that she really did want more of a campus experience further away from home. Two days later she was accepted and is extremely happy at Vassar.</p>
<p>What if you already told the college that they are exactly what you are looking for already (among other things all in a very sincere/heartfelt letter)–and they still waitlisted you? (This happened to me at one of my waitlisted schools)</p>
<p>My son was admitted at 3 schools, denied at two and waitlisted at 4. He’s taken himself off of one wait list and sent in the card for the other 3. He will have his 3rd quarter grades sent in by his counselor and we’ll see where the cards fall. Two of his admitted schools have offered him merit aid and I’m not sure if those schools that waitlisted him would do the same. Since he is trying to make a decision between 2 of the 3 that did accept him I am trying to get him worked up about them and he is. The whole idea of going off to college, away from home, to expand one’s mind and meet new people is all so very exciting. I can’t believe that these kids who are all so capable could find their heart’s desire at only one place. I went to medical school after attending Bryn Mawr College. The first place that accepted me I accepted, it was not a prestigious name, but in hindsight it was probably the only place I could’ve gotten through, because medical school was the pits in terms of intellectual satisfaction. Ended up getting into University of Penn for my residency and they’ve been nice credentials over the years that I could feel proud of. But truth be told the Dept at Penn where I did my residency was subpar and I have an MD after my name no matter where I went to school and frankly my patients don’t seem to care about any of it. They are most interested in how I treat them, and that’s something I probably learned from my family and not school. I suspect if I wanted a high level academic teaching post it might matter where those diplomas came from, but generally speaking it is all what you make of it no matter where you land. And it truly should be a wonderful experience. These are magical years!</p>
<p>drSIM thats probably the best advice in this entire thread besides for the first post, and i totally agree with you. i got wait listed to 4 schools and i’m doing everything i can right now to get into SUNY Buffalo for their pharmacy program through the wait list .</p>